Author: Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 530
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The Eighteenth Century
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 530
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The Conduct of Life
Author: Ralph Waldo EmersonPublisher:
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Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Lectures and Biographical Sketches
Author: Ralph Waldo EmersonPublisher:
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Category : Character
Languages : en
Pages : 636
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Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce
Author: Charles Sanders PeircePublisher:
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages :
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Curiosities of Literature
Author: Isaac DisraeliPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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Physiognomy, Or, The Corresponding Analogy Between the Conformation of the Features and the Ruling Passions of the Mind
Author: Johann Caspar LavaterPublisher:
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Category : Face
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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The Philosophy of Mystery
Author: Walter Cooper DendyPublisher:
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Category : Apparitions
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Visualizing the invisible with the human body
Author: J. Cale JohnsonPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110642689
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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Physiognomy and ekphrasis are two of the most important modes of description in antiquity and represent the necessary precursors of scientific description. The primary way of divining the characteristics and fate of an individual, whether inborn or acquired, was to observe the patient’s external characteristics and behaviour. This volume focuses initially on two types of descriptive literature in Mesopotamia: physiognomic omens and what we might call ekphrastic description. These modalities are traced through ancient India, Ugaritic and the Hebrew Bible, before arriving at the physiognomic features of famous historical figures such as Themistocles, Socrates or Augustus in the Graeco-Roman world, where physiognomic discussions become intertwined with typological analyses of human characters. The Arabic compendial culture absorbed and remade these different physiognomic and ekphrastic traditions, incorporating both Mesopotamian links between physiognomy and medicine and the interest in characterological ‘types’ that had emerged in the Hellenistic period. This volume offer the first wide-ranging picture of these modalities of description in antiquity.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
Author: George Milbry GouldPublisher:
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Category : Abnormalities, Human
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
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Essays on Physiognomy
Author: Johann Caspar LavaterPublisher:
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Category : Physiognomy
Languages : en
Pages :
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